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Enhancing Large Urban Photo Collections with 3D Ladar and GIS Data

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Recent work in computer vision has demonstrated the potential to automatically recover camera and scene geometry from large collections of uncooperatively-collected photos. At the same time, aerial ladar and Geographic Information System (GIS) data are becoming more readily accessible. In this paper, we present a system for fusing these data sources in order to transfer 3D and GIS information into outdoor urban imagery. Applying this system to 1000+ pictures shot of the lower Manhattan skyline and the Statue of Liberty, four proof-ofconcept examples of geometry-based photo enhancement are presented which are difficult to perform via conventional image processing: feature annotation, image-based querying, photo segmentation and city image retrieval. In each example, high-level knowledge projects from 3D worldspace into georegistered 2D image planes and/or propagates between different photos. Such automatic capabilities lay the groundwork for future real-time labeling of imagery shot in complex city environments by mobile smart phones.

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